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Actually "the Lindsay Post ... reduced its daily retail distribution area" nearly four years ago. It was in May 2007 that the Post killed the daily and went twice weekly after 150 years. We used to be able to get the Star, Globe and National Post and the two local dailies delivered to our farm between Lindsay and Peterborough 10 years ago. Plus a handful of weeklies and monthlies. Now nada. If we want a paper we can drive 10 k to Omemee or 20+ to P or L. We read online and publishers wonder why their readership is in the outhouse along with their revenue. When I was at the Globe in the mid-'80s Roy Megarry made an executive decision to cut back the content of the national edition and the circulation area. After he wiped the flying crap out of his eyes, he didn't wait to make a reversal as fast as he could. Too bad nobody else paid attention.

Even the big assed papers like the Toronto Star seem to be having distribution issues.

I'm moving to London, and tried to have my Globe and Star subscriptions changed to the new address for a certain date. No problem for Canada's National Newspaper, the Globe and Mail, but the Star doesn't do home delivery in London, only weekend service.

You also can't get the Toronto Daily Sun in a lot of places in London. One outlet told me they can't carry it. I did find a few copies this week in a Shoppers Drug.

Wow! That is really sad. I feel sorry for all of the seniors in rural areas who don't know how to use the computer. They grew up feeling the printed word between their finger tips as they flipped from news, to war news to sports. Now, all they'll have to rely on is the radio and TV, which will also receive all of the ad revenue. Seniors in rural areas are already fed up trying to deal with people in India as they try and tell them their word ad over the phone. What happened to treating the elderly with respect?

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